2011-12-12 15:19:06 // Paul Davies
// The Idealog Blog
Despite what naysayers might suggest, recent legislation that prepares the way for New Zealand to accede to the Madrid Protocol is good news.
2011-12-09 11:09:10 // Idealog
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DC Comics has proven no match for Wellington finance company Superloans, which has won a legal stoush over claims its mascot Buck bore too many similarities to Superman.
2011-09-29 10:42:14 // Idealog
Microsoft and Samsung have reached a cross-licensing agreement, a deal that means the company will receive royalties on every Android smartphone and tablet sold by Samsung going forward and potentially in retrospect.
2011-09-13 10:26:47 // Esther Goh
Impending legislation that will enable organisations to register a trademark in multiple countries with a single application is a double edged sword for New Zealand companies, according to one patent law expert.
2011-09-09 09:38:59 // Idealog
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A small Wellington IP consultancy has won the first round in a legal trademark battle against credit card giant American Express.
2011-09-09 08:56:16 // Paul Adams
// The Idealog Blog
Until New Zealand adopts a more sensible patent tax regime local innovators should think long and hard about where best to locate their intellectual property.
2010-10-15 10:42:43 // Mitchell Hall
// Idealog #29: features
Derek and Geoff Handley created The Hyperfactory, a high-tech Kiwi business that competes with the world’s best, and in July they sold it for megamillions. Mitchell Hall asks what they’ve learned about entrepreneurship and dreaming big—and why New Zealand needs more like them. Plus: An investor speaks.
2010-09-03 15:05:26 // Dwight Whitney
// Idealog #29: export
Trouble at the mill with your licensee partner? If your intellectual property (IP) and other crucial elements to your business weren’t properly protected at the front end of the process, you may well be up the proverbial creek without any recourse.
2010-09-02 12:03:24 // Design Daily Team
// The Idealog Blog
Here’s a website bound to stoke the fires of designers who’ve ever had their work mirrored or outright copied. “You thought we wouldn’t notice” brings design work mimicry into the limelight of shame.
2010-07-29 00:04:12 // James Hurman
// Idealog #28: features
Adman James Hurman knows what it’s like to be branded a plagiarist—and why we're so quick to believe that a ‘fresh’ idea is actually a cheap rip-off. Why, then, do so many ideas emerge at the same time from different places?
2010-07-14 14:00:19 // Jason Smith
// Idealog #28: workshop
Innovation in New Zealand is on the decline. It's time to ask: do we really value new ideas?
2010-07-08 11:29:26 // Matt Cooney
// Idealog #28: now
You know the television scene is getting weird when TVNZ launches a new channel on Sky’s pay platform. But Eric Kearley, the broadcaster’s new head of digital, reckons it heralds a new age of co-operation in New Zealand media. Others say TVNZ is already irrelevant. So is Kearley just rearranging the deckchairs?
2010-03-26 09:16:56 // Bette Flagler
// Idealog #26: features
There’s something odd about the very small: weird physics and some very big money. Bette Flagler meets the New Zealanders making giant strides at a nano scale.
2010-03-10 11:27:03 // Andy Kenworthy
// Idealog #26: guide
If you are relying on trust, it’s because you haven’t done the right paperwork. Plus IP help on the cheap.
2010-01-27 10:31:48 // David MacGregor
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In the notoriously competitive and difficult to differentiate airline business, Air New Zealand invests in design and experiential marketing
2009-12-16 11:06:00 // Andy Kenworthy
// Idealog #25: guide
The point at which people really get excited about an idea is when they can reach out and touch it, kick its tyres and take it for a spin. This is also a very exciting point for the innovator. Once you have created your prototype, there is every chance you may discover new markets and applications for you innovation as people get hold of it and interact with it in unexpected ways. If things go really well, this may also be your first opportunity to show something concrete to potential partners, investors and customers, to whet their appetites and pry open their wallets.
2009-12-10 13:04:51 // Andy Kenworthy
// Idealog #25: guide
The dog ate my intellectual property protection. If you find yourself snapping a self-portrait while holding up some sketchy diagrams and today’s paper or posting notes to yourself by registered mail in an effort to prove that your original inspirational ideas are indeed yours, you need help.
2009-11-06 15:41:20 // Kris Herbert
// Idealog #24: now
Before the Segway’s launch—back when it was called Project Ginger—a group of Kiwi inventors was figuring out how to make something better. Meet Project Garlic.
2009-10-07 12:19:14 // Sangeeta Anand
// Idealog #23: now
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How do you improve the definitive land yacht? By putting it on the water, of course.
2009-09-15 13:56:31 // Paul Reynolds
// Idealog #23: workshop
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Innovation always has a history. Two books remind us that the present isn’t the only age of wonder.
2009-08-13 14:47:39 // Deirdre Robert
// Idealog TV
Walking through the supermarket with wires running through your cheek and a camera in your mouth may sound odd to most, but for AUT Colab resident Matt Kenyon, it's all in a day's work. Seeking to challenge the 'powers that be' through the appropriation of popular culture, Kenyon not only challenges it, he throws it on its head and turns it inside out.
2009-07-31 09:49:03 // Matt Cooney
// Idealog #22: features
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When guitarist Ben Fulton went electric, he found the only way to get the right sound was to make his own gadgets—and other guitarists agreed. But how do you turn a garage business into an international boutique brand? First, you find someone to share your dream—like Geoff Matthews.
2009-07-28 10:26:21 // Matt Cooney
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Barry Colman invited a firestorm when he announced that the NBR would stop publishing all its content online for free, and instead would save some of its material for paid subscribers. A week later, how’s he doing?
2009-07-27 09:00:00 // Deirdre Robert & Vincent Heeringa
// Idealog TV
Todd Wackrow spent just 3 months at the Icehouse and now look, he's really tall. Idealog asks why.
2009-07-21 15:17:41 // Deirdre Robert & Vincent Heeringa
// Idealog TV
James Madelin had an idea. Now it's a global business. Vincent Heeringa meets the man from Orbis.
2009-07-17 12:27:49 // Deirdre Robert & Vincent Heeringa
// Idealog TV
The Icehouse Business Growth Centre is opening its doors to all tyre-kickers and wannabe billionaires at an Open Day on July 29. Idealog asks startup director Ken Erskine what it takes to become the next Sammy Morgan.
2009-07-09 09:56:21 // Amanda Cropp
// Idealog #22: now
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Three Fisher & Paykel veterans have a radical new design for domestic wind generation. It’s a long way from the DishDrawer.
2009-06-18 16:21:52 // Stephen Jewell
// Idealog #21: now
Author Cory Doctorow is a merciless critic of the mega-corporations that seek to control creative content—and he’s happy to give his own work away for free
